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Barclay v Pearson

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Vincent
JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1893
Date1893
CourtChancery Division
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  • Imperial Tobacco Ltd v Attorney General
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 9 March 1979
    ...But there were many possible answers: and the selection of the winning answer was entirely by chance. It was held to be a lottery, in Barclay v. Pearson (1893) 2 Ch. 154. Likewise with the last line in a limerick (at 6d. a coupon), Blyth v. Holton (1908) 24 T.L.H. 725, or the solution of a ......
  • News of the World Ltd v Friend
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 31 January 1973
    ...merit of 13 named commodities (see Hobbs v. Ward 45 T.L.R. 373). The same rule caught the missing word competition in Barclay v. Pearson [1893] 2 Ch. 154, and the crossword competition where several of the clues admitted of alternative solutions (Coles v. Odhams Press Ltd. [1936] 1 K.B. 416......
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